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• ĀṮĀR AL-BĀQĪA

  D. Pingree

   (The Chronology of Ancient Nations), a historical work by Bīrūnī, composed at the age of 27, in 1000 CE.

• ĀṮĀR AL-BELĀD

  C. E. Bosworth

  the title of a geographical work composed in Arabic during the 7th/13th century by the Persian scholar Abū Yaḥyā Zakarīyāʾ b. Moḥammad Qazvīnī.

• ĀṮĀR AL-WOZARĀʾ

  M. Dabīrsīāqī

  a biographical work on ministers and other officials, their policies and literary works, by Sayf al-dīn Ḥāǰǰī b. Neẓām ʿAqīlī, written at Herat between 1470-71 and 1486-87.

• ĀṮĀR-E ʿAJAM

  M. Dabīrsīaqī

  a study of the geographical features and historical monuments of Fārs.

• ĀTAŠ

  M. Boyce

  “fire” in Zoroastrianism. The hearth fire, providing warmth, light and comfort, was regarded by the ancient Iranians as the visible embodiment of the divinity Ātar, who lived among men as their servant and master. Fire was also present at their religious ceremonies.

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• ĀTAŠ Journal

  N. Parvīn

  (Fire), a Persian journal of news and political comment, published in Tehran, 1946-60.

• ĀTAŠ NIYĀYIŠN

  M. Boyce and F. M. Kotwal

  the fifth in a group of five Zoroastrian prayers, which is addressed to fire and its divinity.

• ĀTAŠ, AḤMAD

  cross-reference

  See  ATEŞ, AHMED.

• ĀTAŠ, Ḵᵛāja ʿAlī Ḥaydar

  M. Baqir

  late 18th to early 19th-century Indo-Muslim poet in Persian and Urdu.

• ĀTAŠ-ZŌHR

  M. Boyce and F. M. Kotwal

  or ātaš-zōr, a Middle Persian term for the Zoroastrian ritual.